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Handley Page were four-engine biplane airliners designed and manufactured by British aviation company Handley Page, based in Radlett, Hertfordshire. It held the distinction of being the largest airliner in regular use in the world upon the type's introduction in 1931. Refueling Hanno at Samakh, Tiberias, Palestine, October 1931

 

[kd4ulw]

Can you imagine how loud it was inside!

 

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Can you imagine how loud it was inside!

You wouldn't even be able to hear all the people praying they lived through the flight.

 

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View of the mines on "The Richest Hill on Earth" - Butte, Montana ca. 1910.

 

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'Art's Sportsmen's Tavern' on a rainy day in Colchester, Connecticut, November 1940

 

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12-year-old Robert Wadlow (left), the tallest man to ever live (eventually reaching 8ft 11.1in (2.72m) tall), posing with legendary boxer Primo Carnera (right), who was 6ft 6in (1.98m) tall. Photo taken in 1930. At 12 years old, Robert Wadlow stood at 7ft (2.13m) tall.

 

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This 1866 image shows the second iteration of the International Hotel at Virginia City, Nevada. The first building was built in 1859, but Virginia City was growing so rapidly that it quickly became obsolete. The building was dismantled and shipped to Austin, Nevada where it still stands today. The building in the photo was completed in 1862, burned in the great fire of 1875, and was replaced by the third and final structure the following year.

 

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A real doctor's mask during the Plague, 1650 -1750. If the plague didn't kill you, the sight of this mask surely would scare one to death.

 

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Doll seller/merchant, London, 1920's...creepy!

 

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Silk factory workers drawing thread from cocoons, Japan, ca. 1915

 

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Iron Thunder, Crow Eagle, Fool Thunder and Slow White Buffalo, Dakota 1880's (slow white buffalo, bet they can't jump either )

 

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Broadway, New York City, 1950

 

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Hot Dog Stand. New York City, 1963

 

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New York City Lower East Side Flat bldgs. Clinton St. 1941.

(over the years i came to despise living in a house with stairs. No way in ell I'd live in a 5 story walk up.)

 

[Pearl]

Broadway, New York City, 1950

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My Mom grew up in NYC, she got her driver's license in 1951 at the age of 20! Most women didn't drive back then, especially in NYC, but she did!!

 

[Peanut]

San Francisco is home to many iconic sites - Lombard Street, which claims to be the most crooked street in America. With eight hairpin turns and a steep grade attracts its own fair share of tourists who what to drive, bike, or walk down this zigzag road. Let’s look at the birth of the iconic Lombard Street.

Prior to the 1920s, all of Lombard Street, was straight. At this time, The folks living on the street wanted to purchase cars just like their friends & family, but the street was too steep & no one wanted to live in a place that wouldn’t allow automobiles.

Lombard Street resident Carl Henry, a wealthy insurance & drug company executive. Henry owned several lots on Lombard Street as well as the land surrounding the street itself. He came up with the suggested making the street curve & turn back and forth so cars could travel down the steep street in the same manner as a horse would climb down a big hill - by going side to side.

Carl Henry was convinced that his idea for Lombard Street would work. Since Henry owned the land around the street, he got to work on the project. He envisioned the winding street to have a park-like feel to it. So, he first constructed a lily pond & planted a rose garden. He had planned to present the street & park to the city of SF as a gift. His plans stalled when he died unexpectedly. He left his widow with a mountain of debt and she was forced to sell the Lombard Street property to pay her creditors.

Peter Bercut, annoyed his neighbors by trimming their hedges & planting flowers along the street. Erosion was a problem as the hill was so steep & the flower beds washed out. Bercut hit upon the perfect solution when he was visiting his native France. In the 1940s, he filled Lombard Street with hydrangeas. The shrub held the soil in place, were low-maintenance, and very beautiful. When a travel photograph of Lombard Street, with its hairpin turns & bright, blooming hydrangeas, was published & made into a postcard in 1961, the unique street became a tourist attraction.

One of San Francisco’s most scenic streets & easily the most famous one, Lombard Street still remains one of the most visited and most photographed spots in the city.
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Don't think people can drive down it now... I drove down it in the 80's. Had an old beat up f-100 long bed, w/289, headers, dual exh and glass packs. Probably why people can no longer drive down the street.

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Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant, chose to spend her day off on Dec 15th, 1941, sunbathing on a Miami beach, as was her custom. In a significant departure from her usual routine, she took a Chinese flag with her to ensure that onlookers would not mistake her for being of Japanese descent.

This precaution came in the aftermath of the devastating attack on Dec 7, 1941, by Japanese aircraft on American naval bases at Pearl Harbor, an event Pres Franklin D. Roosevelt famously described as "a date which will live in infamy," which resulted in the death of over 2,300 Americans.

Subsequently, on Feb 19, 1942, Pres Roosevelt ordered the internment of nearly 120,000 individuals of Japanese heritage, among whom approximately 80,000 were American citizens by birth.

The photograph captures the Nationalist China flag, which, following the Communist revolution, became the emblem of Nationalist China in its exile to Taiwan. This flag continues to serve as Taiwan's official flag today.

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These are the cells on an 1800's convict ship. In 1787, the First Fleet, holding a group of convicts departed from England to establish the first colonial settlement in Australia, as a penal colony.

The First Fleet included boats containing food and animals from London.
The ships and boats of the fleet would explore the coast of Australia by sailing all around it looking for suitable farming land and resources. The fleet arrived at Botany Bay, Sydney on 18 January 1788, then moved to Sydney Cove (modern-day Circular Quay) and established the first permanent European settlement in Australia. This marked the beginning of the European colonization of Australia.

The ship in this picture is Success, from the 1890s to the 1930s, she underwent a transformation into a floating museum, exhibiting artifacts from the convict period and aiming to depict the dreadful realities of penal transportation in Great Britain.

The ship in this picture is Success, from the 1890s to the 1930s, she underwent a transformation into a floating museum, exhibiting artifacts from the convict period and aiming to depict the dreadful realities of penal transportation in Great Britain.

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[Supervisor42]

These are the cells on an 1800's convict ship. In 1787, the First Fleet, holding a group of convicts departed from England to establish the first colonial settlement in Australia, as a penal colony.

I wonder how many Australians today can trace their ancestry back to that ship?
All of that 'penal colony' stuff has been erased from their history .

 

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The library of the University Club of NY on 5th Ave at 54th.

Andrew Carnegie made the deal to sell Carnegie Steel to J.P. Morgan over dinner at this very club forming U.S. Steel. It’s absolutely lavish inside.

 

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In 1767 Benjamin Franklin rode from New York City to Boston along the original Post Road to measure individual miles. This was done to help prevent fraud within the Postal Service, which he was postmaster general at the time. Every mile a stone marker would be placed with a carved distance between Boston or New York. Some of the original stone markers still exist today all along the highway in Massachusetts and in New York State this one is in Northborough Massachusetts along the original alignment of Route 20.

Franklin developed a way to measure mileage by attaching a dowel inside a wagon wheel, and based on the circumference of the wheel a clapper would sound at each mile’s interval, with a milepost marker erected.

 

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Belle Mina Alabama, named for a nearby plantation owned by the second governor of alabama, Thomas Bibb. It's in the se corner of limestone county, on the north bank of the TN river, a small un-incorporated community. @Swing ever been here?

 

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1916 Texas rangers enjoy a slug

 

[Swing]

I've driven on the outskirts of it. Now I'll need to go see the rest of it and take some photos.

I'll have to find my photo of the Belle Mina church on the outskirts of town.

 

[Supervisor42]

Who remembers seeing one of these next to the Christmas tree, being the best day of your life?

 

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I knew a lady in upstate ny once. She’d been south recently and found the name ‘Piggly Wiggly’ hysterical. She didn’t believe me when I told her about the ‘Jitney Jungle’, another grocery store chain in the deep south.

She thought I was making it up! In those days you could still get directory assistance on the phone. She finally believed after asking the phone# for the JJ in the town I told her.

And my favorite grocery store name… (Gadsden al)